"The aid is violent, arbitrary, blind, self-important. A paternalistic monster which sweeps everything in its wake. It acts like it is solving problems that it in fact maintains" says the director of the film.

Raoul Peck intervened to stress the importance of getting out of the discourse of permanently criticizing the Haitian government's management of the humanitarian aid citing the state's weakness.

This tendency avoids structural discussions having to do with the aid itself.

The filmmaker pleads in favor of using Haitian competencies in rebuilding the country.

"The terrain is maligned by a set of influences that we do not control. When 84 percent of the money in a government's budget is not in its hands, it is a huge loss of legitimacy and power" he adds.

Underlining the dysfunction of the aid, he calls on all those implicated in the reconstruction to reshuffle the cards and rethink the conversation."

Can I get an A-MEN?

(Raoul Peck is a prominent and internationally acclaimed Haitian filmmaker. His films include Man by the Shore and Lumumba.)